EPL 2024/2025
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@African-Monkey said in EPL 2024/2025:
Brentford, Brighton and Bournemouth's dreams of qualifying for European football are over.
If Chelsea finish 7th and wing the Conference League then the team that finishes eighth will still make it to Europe. Unlikely but not impossible
@dogmeat said in EPL 2024/2025:
@African-Monkey said in EPL 2024/2025:
Brentford, Brighton and Bournemouth's dreams of qualifying for European football are over.
If Chelsea finish 7th and wing the Conference League then the team that finishes eighth will still make it to Europe. Unlikely but not impossible
Highly possible if they lose to Forest.
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@KiwiPie Apparently Wrexham are after Tom Cairney on a free. I think Fulham may offer him a new contract. Also can't see him lasting a Championship season given his injury record
@dogmeat said in EPL 2024/2025:
@KiwiPie Apparently Wrexham are after Tom Cairney on a free. I think Fulham may offer him a new contract. Also can't see him lasting a Championship season given his injury record
I expect Fulham to bid for many players in the off season. Someone like Vardy would be gold in the championship and to boost ratings. The relegated teams can expect a bid or 2 for the known quantities.
Meanwhile Notts lost to Wimbledon in the League 2 play-offs - wasn't there a Wimbledon fan on here? No post about it yet so that's good.
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Europe was over for Bournemouth really after our woeful January, however we did enough to be a chance for Europe until yesterday.
Hopefully only really will lose three key players (and hopefully no Manager). One already signed. Great progress as a team but after that start, largely disappointing.Still that first City goal by Omar Marmoush was an absolute screamer.
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Europe was over for Bournemouth really after our woeful January, however we did enough to be a chance for Europe until yesterday.
Hopefully only really will lose three key players (and hopefully no Manager). One already signed. Great progress as a team but after that start, largely disappointing.Still that first City goal by Omar Marmoush was an absolute screamer.
@bayimports said in EPL 2024/2025:
Europe was over for Bournemouth really after our woeful January, however we did enough to be a chance for Europe until yesterday.
Hopefully only really will lose three key players (and hopefully no Manager). One already signed. Great progress as a team but after that start, largely disappointing.Still that first City goal by Omar Marmoush was an absolute screamer.
That was a perfect shot from Marmoush when you see it from multiple angles. Kepa wasn't that far away from it but it was unstoppable.
I think with Bournemouth that teams are a bit more clued up in how to play them and some of their best players have had to keep playing because of all the injuries. It's hard to play all season with the furious intensity that the Bournemouth style needs.
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Vardy was 25 when he was signed by Leicester for a million quid when they were still in the championship. Huge gamble for a non-league player but one of the best signings ever. He played a lot of games for not many goals in the season they just stayed up in the prem before their title winning season.
Suddenly when Leicester had Kante and Mahrez, Vardy became a goal machine - the perfect striker for their style, quick, hard working and a constant pest.
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Tottenham win the Europa League Final
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Wanted Spurs to win only because selfishly that should mean they stay away from Iraola now
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@bayimports said in EPL 2024/2025:
Europe was over for Bournemouth really after our woeful January, however we did enough to be a chance for Europe until yesterday.
Hopefully only really will lose three key players (and hopefully no Manager). One already signed. Great progress as a team but after that start, largely disappointing.Still that first City goal by Omar Marmoush was an absolute screamer.
That was a perfect shot from Marmoush when you see it from multiple angles. Kepa wasn't that far away from it but it was unstoppable.
I think with Bournemouth that teams are a bit more clued up in how to play them and some of their best players have had to keep playing because of all the injuries. It's hard to play all season with the furious intensity that the Bournemouth style needs.
@KiwiPie said in EPL 2024/2025:
@bayimports said in EPL 2024/2025:
Europe was over for Bournemouth really after our woeful January, however we did enough to be a chance for Europe until yesterday.
Hopefully only really will lose three key players (and hopefully no Manager). One already signed. Great progress as a team but after that start, largely disappointing.Still that first City goal by Omar Marmoush was an absolute screamer.
That was a perfect shot from Marmoush when you see it from multiple angles. Kepa wasn't that far away from it but it was unstoppable.
I think with Bournemouth that teams are a bit more clued up in how to play them and some of their best players have had to keep playing because of all the injuries. It's hard to play all season with the furious intensity that the Bournemouth style needs.
You’re right on this when the injuries occurred our next level squad members could not keep up, in fact some still struggling now
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Good on Ange. Worked his way up from the old NSL with South Melbourne, the won titles with the Brisbane Roar, the Asia Cup with Australia, the J Legaue at Yokohama F Marinos, won plenty with Celtic, now has ended Tottenham's trophy drought like he said he would with his famous 'I always win things in my 2nd year' quote.
Well done to him.
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When Spurs sack him on Monday this guarantees another job somewhere almost immediately. Good stuff.
This weekend's games should be pretty funny
Liverpool v Palace will be hilarious when both teams fly straight from Ibiza for the game "hey pilot leave her running we'll be right back"
Spurs will still be drunk, playing a team that can't really move in the league eitherThe Champions League spots could come down to the motivation of the opposition more than the quality of the teams in the mix.
Villa get an absolutely dejected Man U side who will have no care factor now
Which means Chelsea probably can't afford to park the bus and draw with Forest.
Newcastle host Everton who said goodbye to the spiritual home last week, and can't come anywhere except 13th
City only need a draw. -
Match was footballs equivalent of the 2011 RWC final. Terrible, nervous game.
Amorim team dreadful til they made subs.
Spurs defense brilliant.
Relatively neutral here with a Spurs lean …. Dreadful watching
@MajorRage said in EPL 2024/2025:
Match was footballs equivalent of the 2011 RWC final. Terrible, nervous game.
Amorim team dreadful til they made subs.
Spurs defense brilliant.
Relatively neutral here with a Spurs lean …. Dreadful watching
Highlights suggested we barely hung on. But that's what it takes when you have to wait 15 years for a trophy
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It is deeply funny that Ange stated his style was his style and no compromise (high line and all out attack) and then won a European trophy with peak Mourinho grab a goal and park the bus. What now for Amorim? No sign of improvement and will the board give him the money to buy his own players?
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It is deeply funny that Ange stated his style was his style and no compromise (high line and all out attack) and then won a European trophy with peak Mourinho grab a goal and park the bus. What now for Amorim? No sign of improvement and will the board give him the money to buy his own players?
@KiwiPie said in EPL 2024/2025:
It is deeply funny that Ange stated his style was his style and no compromise (high line and all out attack) and then won a European trophy with peak Mourinho grab a goal and park the bus. What now for Amorim? No sign of improvement and will the board give him the money to buy his own players?
Learnings
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@MajorRage said in EPL 2024/2025:
Match was footballs equivalent of the 2011 RWC final. Terrible, nervous game.
Amorim team dreadful til they made subs.
Spurs defense brilliant.
Relatively neutral here with a Spurs lean …. Dreadful watching
Highlights suggested we barely hung on. But that's what it takes when you have to wait 15 years for a trophy
@canefan said in EPL 2024/2025:
@MajorRage said in EPL 2024/2025:
Match was footballs equivalent of the 2011 RWC final. Terrible, nervous game.
Amorim team dreadful til they made subs.
Spurs defense brilliant.
Relatively neutral here with a Spurs lean …. Dreadful watching
Highlights suggested we barely hung on. But that's what it takes when you have to wait 15 years for a trophy
Not really. Vicario and Romero nearly gifted Hojlund an equalizer if it weren't for the heroics of Van De Ven, and Shaw had a header parried away at the end by Vicario but other than that, Man U and this ridiculous shape they continue to persist with were rather toothless in the attacking third and had to rely on aerial balls to give themselves a chance. Apparently Amorim is the man to take them forward.........hmmm........
